William slote



(No Model.)

- W. SLOTE.

FISHING REEL.

No. 437,627, Patented Sept. 30, 1890.

J0 WITNESSES:

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

WILLIAM SLOTE, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

FISHING-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 437,627, dated September 30, 1890.

Application filed October 1, 1889- Serial No. 325,686- (No model.)

, To all whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM SLOTE, a citizen ot the-United States, residing in Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Fishing-Reels, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to fishing-reels the heads of which are composed partly or wholly of gutta-percha, commonly called rubber, for the sake of lightness. In reels of a this character metal bearings have to be provided on the rubber heads for the various movable parts of the bobbin,crank-handle, and multiplying-gear. These bearings have been made on metal plates secured on the face of the heads, which were in the form of solid disks, and when the rubber heads became warped or distorted the metal hearings were correspondingly displaced, to the injury of the mechanism of the reel.

My invention consists of a reel one of the heads of which,particular1y that holding the winding-gear, is formed of an external annulus of gutta-percha, to which the pillars are attached, and a hollow circular box of metal filling and fixed within the open center of the annulus so as to make the entire head inflexible, and to form a rigid bearing for the working parts of the gearing without impairing the lightness of the reel, substantiallyas hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a side view of a fishing-reel constructed according to my invention. Fig. 2 is an opposite side view of the said fishing-reel.

- Fig. 3 is a cross-sectional view of the same,on

the line X X, Fig. 2.

Like letters of reference designate corresponding parts in the several figures of the drawings.

The head A of the reel thus illustrated, on which the handle B and multiplying-gear O proved description, is arranged, is constructed of a solid rubber disk P, having circular central recesses I J, formed on opposite sides, and a metal centerK countersunk in the outer recess I, the rubber portion of said head G thereby virtually forming a ring G, as in the other head A, closed only by a thin diaphragm G which serves as a backing for the metal center K. The rubber rings D and G of the two heads are connected by metal pillars L in the ordinary manner, and on the metal centers E K are formed the bearings M N for the respective pivots of the bobbin 0, and on the center E the bearing B for the handle B. With this constructiomwhile the requisite lightness of reel is obtained, the various bearings being all 011 the described metal centers, and the rubber rings being rigidly braced and stilfened from within by said centers, said bearings, and hence all the working parts, will remain unaifected by changes of temperature or humidity.

I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- As an improved article of manufacture, a fishing-reel the head A of which is c011- structed of an external annulus D of guttapercha, to which the pillars L are attached, and a hollow metallic gear-containing and bearing box 0, filling and fixed within the open center of the gutta-percha annulus, substantially as specified.

WM. SLOTE.

Witnesses:

F. J. WALL, CLARENCE L. BURGER. 

